Python Automation Cookbook: Explore the world of automation using Python recipes that will enhance your skills

Step-by-step instructions which take you through each program to automate monotonous tasks with Python 3.7

Key Features

• Automate integral business processes such as report generation, email marketing, and lead generation
• Build your first web application that scrapes data and accesses websites' APIs
• Create graphic-rich charts, graphs, and maps using Matplotlib

Book Description

Have you been doing the same old monotonous office work over and over again? Or have you been trying to find an easy way to make your life better by automating some of your repetitive tasks? Through a tried and tested approach, understand how to automate all the boring stuff using Python.

The Python Automation Cookbook helps you develop a clear understanding of how to automate your business processes using Python, including detecting opportunities by scraping the web, analyzing information to generate automatic spreadsheets reports with graphs, and communicating with automatically generated emails.

You'll learn how to get notifications via text messages and run tasks while your mind is focused on other important activities, followed by understanding how to scan documents such as resumes. Once you've gotten familiar with the fundamentals, you'll be introduced to the world of graphs, along with studying how to produce organized charts using Matplotlib. In addition to this, you'll gain in-depth knowledge of how to generate rich graphics showing relevant information.

By the end of this book, you'll have refined your skills by attaining a sound understanding of how to identify and correct problems to produce superior and reliable systems.

What you will learn

• Get to grips with scraping a website to detect changes
• Search and process raw sales files to aggregate information in spreadsheets
• Explore techniques to extract information from an Excel spreadsheet and generate exciting reports with graphs
• Discover the techniques required to generate random, print-friendly codes to be used as single-use coupons
• Automatically generate a marketing campaign, contacting the recipients over different channels
• Identify and implement precise solutions

Who this book is for

The Python Automation Cookbook is for you if you are a developer or anyone who wants to automate monotonous manual tasks related to fields such as finance, sales, and HR, among others.

Table of Contents

1. Let Us Begin Our Automation Journey
2. Automating Tasks Made Easy
3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application
4. Searching and Reading Local Files
5. Generating Fantastic Reports
6. Fun with Spreadsheets
7. Developing Stunning Graphs
8. Dealing with Communication Channels
9. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign?
10. Debugging Techniques

這本書的標題是《Python自動化食譜》，它提供了一步一步的指導，教你如何使用Python 3.7自動化單調的任務。以下是一些重點特色：

- 自動化重要的業務流程，如報告生成、電子郵件營銷和潛在客戶生成。
- 建立你的第一個網絡應用程序，用於爬取數據和訪問網站的API。
- 使用Matplotlib創建豐富的圖表、圖形和地圖。

這本書的描述如下：

你是否一遍又一遍地做著同樣單調的辦公室工作？或者你是否一直在尋找一種簡單的方法，通過自動化一些重複性任務來改善生活？通過一種經過驗證的方法，了解如何使用Python自動化所有無聊的事情。

《Python自動化食譜》幫助你清楚地了解如何使用Python自動化你的業務流程，包括通過爬取網絡來檢測機會，分析信息以生成帶有圖表的自動電子表格報告，以及與自動生成的電子郵件進行通信。

你將學習如何通過短信獲得通知，並在你的注意力集中在其他重要活動時運行任務，然後了解如何掃描文件，如簡歷。一旦你熟悉了基礎知識，你將被介紹到圖表的世界，並學習如何使用Matplotlib生成有組織的圖表。除此之外，你還將深入了解如何生成顯示相關信息的豐富圖形。

通過閱讀本書，你將通過獲得對如何識別和解決問題以產生優秀可靠系統的深入理解來提升你的技能。

你將學到以下內容：

- 掌握爬取網站以檢測變化的技巧。
- 搜索和處理原始銷售文件，以在電子表格中聚合信息。
- 探索從Excel電子表格中提取信息並生成帶有圖表的精彩報告的技巧。
- 發現生成隨機、適合打印的代碼以用作一次性優惠券的技巧。
- 自動生成營銷活動，通過不同渠道聯繫收件人。
- 識別並實施精確解決方案。

這本書適合開發人員或任何希望自動化與金融、銷售、人力資源等相關的單調手動任務的人。

以下是本書的目錄：

1. 讓我們開始自動化之旅
2. 簡化自動化任務
3. 構建你的第一個網絡爬蟲應用程序
4. 搜索和讀取本地文件
5. 生成精彩的報告
6. 電子表格的樂趣
7. 開發令人驚嘆的圖表
8. 處理通信渠道
9. 為什麼不自動化你的營銷活動？
10. 調試技巧